September 2017

Both the University of Akron Press and Wesleyan University Press have made the National Book Awards poetry shortlist for Leslie Harrison's The Book of Endings and Shane McCrae's In the Language of My Captor, respectively.

The University of Massachusetts Press is launching Bright Leaf, a new imprint with a regional focus on New England’s cuisines, landmarks, and more.

Ohio State University Press has launched a new imprint, Latinographix which will showcase trade graphic and comic books—graphic novels, memoir, nonfiction, and more—by Latinx writers and artists.

Princeton University Press has opened an office in Beijing, China, allowing the press “to play a more important role in fostering cross-cultural academic conversations.”

August 2017

LeAnn Fields, Editor at the University of Michigan Press, has won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education for her work in theatrical and dramatic studies at the press

Stanford University Press, with the help of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is exploring new publishing channels for digital scholarship. Learn more >

July 2017

Princeton University Press was awarded the Lyman H. Butterfield Award by the Association for Documentary Editing. Read more >

SUNY Press has experienced a surge of interest in an old title thanks to a brief mention in an interview. Learn more >

The University of Wisconsin Press was profiled about its mission by The Capital Times.Read the profile >

June 2017

Bucknell University announced a new partnership with Rutgers University Press. Beginning spring 2018, Bucknell books will be fully integrated into the Rutgers University Press publishing program. Read more >

Cornell University Press has launched a new imprint, Three Hills, covering the Empire State, its people, heritage, Cornell University, and more

The MIT Press has partnered with the Internet Archive to scan, preserve, and enable libraries to lend hundreds of MIT Press books that are currently not available digitally, with support from Arcadia.

University of New South Wales Press has been named Small Publisher of the Year at the 2017 Australian Book Industry Awards, presented at a gala dinner held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on May 25. Congratulations!

Rutgers University Press is launching a new series of thematic volumes of reportage, engaged research, and critical reflection on contemporary LGBTQ political, social and cultural issues, called Q Public

Michigan Publishing, the publishing division of the University of Michigan Library, and LYRASIS have announced a partnership to provide sales and administrative support for content and services offered through the platform known as Fulcrum, currently under development at Michigan Publishing with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

West Virginia Press director Derek Krissoff wrote about the value of the press's Graduate Assistant program and how the press is "a pivotal community resource." Read the full article >

April 2017

Manifold has launched a public beta of its new publishing platform for interactive scholarly monographs. Funded through the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Manifold is a collaboration between University of Minnesota Press, the GC Digital Scholarship Lab at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and Cast Iron Coding.

March 2017

Cornell University Press, Fordham University Press, Syracuse University Press, and Temple University Press have been awarded grants from the Humanities Open Book Program, jointly funded by the NEH and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Congratulations to all!

The University of Hawai'i Press selected Project MUSE to host, manage and deliver their journal content.

Authors from the University Press of Kentucky, the University of New Mexico Press, and Yale University Press have received 2017 PEN Literary Awards. Watch the awards here >

Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers by Nancy Tomes, published by University of North Carolina Press,won a 2017 Bancroft Prize for diplomacy and history

February 2017

The University of Cincinnati Press has joined AAUP as an Introductory Member. Learn more about the Press and its Director, Elizabeth Scarpelli, online.

Do you have news to submit to AAUPNet.org?AAUP members can submit news of prizes, collaborative and digital publishing project descriptions, and personnel announcements to Brenna McLaughlin at bmclaughlin@aaupnet.org.